Jess Franco’s Sex is Crazy is an almost unclassifiable film. I guess you could call it a sex comedy, but that still wouldn’t do it justice. It has a freewheeling, madcap, almost Monty Python style of irreverence. (Just don’t mistake “irreverence” for “funny”.) Scenes start out like a drama, and then the director (Franco, of course) does a second take where the actors play it like a comedy. There are scenes of an alien gangbang where a human woman is impregnated over and over again in a matter of minutes. This is eventually revealed to be nothing more than a live sex show. Then, there are parts that play out like a spy movie where Lina Romay is tortured with utensils up her hoo-hah by Argentinian secret agents looking for microfilm. She gets over that very quickly and runs off and has sex with her boyfriend while he’s driving. There are also constant cutaways to the “producer’s girlfriend” who is only there to provide the film with gratuitous nudity.
We also get a group marriage and a Satanic ceremony. Oh, and it MIGHT be all a dream. Or a movie. Or a videotape. And the aliens might’ve been real all along. I don’t know.
One thing is for sure, the movie lives up to its title. Sex is Crazy is crazy. There’s a lot of nudity, a wild anarchic spirit, and jaw-dropping absurdity here. That might seem like high praise, but I assure you that words like “good”, “entertaining”, and “coherent” were at no time found anywhere in this review.
As far as Franco’s signatures go, his use of long, wandering camera pans and zooms matches the wandering, aimless plot to a tee. His penchant for showing Romay in the nude also crops up once more. In addition to Romay, co-stars Robert Foster and Tony Skios were also in Franco’s Night of Open Sex.
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